PM News: Homeland Security Retreats on Mail Voting Data, Seattle Halts New Data Centers

About this episode

The episode discusses the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's retreat from collecting mail-in voting data and Seattle's moratorium on new data centers due to environmental concerns.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has pulled back from a controversial plan to collect data on mail-in voters, a move that reflects the ongoing legal challenges surrounding Trump's executive order on mail ballots. Seattle has made a bold decision to impose a year-long moratorium on new data centers, a response to growing concerns over environmental impacts and energy consumption. Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters | Seattle | The Guardian Homeland Security retreats on plan to get data on mail-in voters | News From The States Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy--6256627/support .

Topics covered

• mail voting
• data collection
• environmental impact
• data centers
• politics
• legal challenges

Keywords

• Homeland Security
• mail-in voting
• Seattle
• data centers
• environmental impact
• Trump
• moratorium

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Trump, The Guardian, News From The States

Places: Seattle

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